Harassed at
home by their own kids, vulnerable and easy targets against crimes, Ahmedabad
accounts for the highest number of cases against senior citizens in the state
— On June 13,
a 29-year-old painter asked his mother to accompany him to a nearby field in
Vatva. He gagged and raped her before abandoning her. When no one heard her
cries, the shocked woman mustered courage to reach her daughter’s house in the
same locality.
— Hemant
Mehta, a 77-year-old retired government officer lives alone at a flat in
Praladnagar. Recently when his eldest daughter Kinjal Mehta came to meet him,
she found that Rs 50,000 was missing from the house. Police investigation
revealed that one of the two nurses employed to look after him had stolen the
money and escaped.
